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Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging
From: |
Rafael Laboissiere |
Subject: |
Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:41:00 -0500 |
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* John W. Eaton <address@hidden> [2005-04-23 10:26]:
> On 23-Apr-2005, Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | Indeed, octave-gpc is released under the GNU GPL. However, octave-gpc
> | links against the General Polygon Clipping Library
> | (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/gpc.html), which has a
> | non-free license.
>
> Doesn't that mean that you can't distribute the result, because the
> whole cannot be distributed under the terms of the GPL?
I am not fully confident on this issue, but I think it works the other
way around: if a library is released under the GPL, then the linked
result *_must_* also be released under the GPL.
I wrote the octave-gpc binding and decided to release it under the GPL.
This means that if one day someone writes a GPLed drop-in replacement for
GPC, then the binding can be used freely.
Notice also that the octave-gpc package in Debian is in the contrib
section, not in main.
--
Rafael
- Octave-forge packaging, Quentin Spencer, 2005/04/22
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging,
Rafael Laboissiere <=
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Paul Kienzle, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, John W. Eaton, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Rafael Laboissiere, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/04/24
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Quentin Spencer, 2005/04/23
- Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging, Dirk Eddelbuettel, 2005/04/23